Maggots 1998 Why I love garagerock As a young boy in the early 70’s me and my friends mostly listened to Sweet and Kiss. Other groups  of interest was Slade , Nazareth and Uriah Heep but music was not my main interest – I wanted to be  a cartoonist. All that changed during summer of 1980 when my parents sent me England on a language travel  course in Bude, Cornwall. There I got in touch with the embryonic mod- and skinhead culture and I  discovered SKA-music. Back home in Stockholm me and some other friends directly became mods  and soon realized that maybe SKA wasn’t the real deal as it was mostly favoured by our arch  enemies, the skinheads. Stomachmouths. In Orbit session 1987 So from there we instead turned to The Jam , The Chords , Purple Hearts etc and from there back to  the 60’s with groups such as The Who , Small Faces , Kinks and so on. For me my mod days ended in  1982 because I was fed up with the narrow minded scene and also had found other kind of musical  influc